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Bizarre blotter: Potato shoots into home, old man hides sword in cane and other strange crimes

By Karen Workman

Digital First Media

Posted:
01/30/2013 10:41:45 AM PST

Updated:
01/31/2013 04:50:20 AM PST

Today we learn that potato guns can be dangerous, canes can be used to conceal weapons, and that one alleged robber has a really unhealthy diet.

Bizarre blotter: Potato shoots into home, old man hides sword in cane and other strange crimes

Today we learn that potato guns can be dangerous, canes can be used to conceal weapons, and that one alleged robber has a really unhealthy diet.Not your average spud: Potato used as bullet, barrels through walls of home Potato-damaged wall. (Submitted/York Daily Record)A potato literally launched through the exterior wall of a Pennsylvania home and landed in a bedroom where two adults and a baby were sleeping, reports the York Daily Record. Three teens were arrested following grocery store footage ...